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This resource was developed as part of the AHA’s Remote Teaching Resources<\/a> initiative.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Commodity Histories<\/h4>\n

Sandip Hazareesingh, Principal Investigator\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Commodity Histories<\/a>\u00a0is a public forum for research postings as well as news and information about the history of commodities. The forum details the rich histories and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America via their world historical role in crop and other commodity production, past and present. An outgrowth of\u00a0Commodities of Empire<\/a>, this is is a community-building project. Available resources include working papers, primary sources, and a bibliography of commodities.<\/p>\n

Dig: A History Podcast<\/h4>\n

Averill Earls, Mercyhurst University; Sarah Handley-Cousins, University at Buffalo; Marissa C. Rhodes, Niagara University; Elizabeth Garner Masarik, SUNY Brockport<\/em><\/p>\n

Dig: A History Podcast<\/a>\u00a0is a narrative-driven, open access, and accessible digital history project bridging the worlds of popular and academic history with an explicitly feminist perspective. Topics include motherhood, childhood, health, medicine, slavery, empire, and war. Educator resource topics include creating a podcast, discussion, debate, source assessment, and writing an episode.<\/p>\n

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History<\/h4>\n

Richard Hacken, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University<\/em><\/p>\n

EuroDocs<\/a>\u00a0includes European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition, there are videos, sound files, maps, images, databases, and other documentation.<\/p>\n

Europe’s Literary Response: American Beginnings, 1492-1690<\/h4>\n

National Humanities Center<\/em><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s Literary Response <\/a>is Part II of \u201cAmerican Beginnings: the European Presence in North America, 1492-1690\u201d at\u00a0https:\/\/nationalhumanitiescenter.org\/pds\/amerbegin\/index.htm<\/a>. The site offers thematically organized primary resources with notes and discussion questions. The \u201ctoolbox\u201d is divided into five topics that include linked texts with explanatory notes. Framing questions can help drive in-class discussion; they may also be assigned for independent reading and assessment in a remote or flipped class. Here, students will consider how Europeans responded to the news of Columbus\u2019 \u201cdiscoveries\u201d across the Atlantic through the works of Sebastian Brant, Thomas More, John Rastell, Albrect D\u00fcrer and more.<\/p>\n

Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Fraternit\u00e9<\/h4>\n

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York)<\/em><\/p>\n

Libert\u00e9, \u00c9galit\u00e9, Fraternit\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0offers rich resources for student reading and research. The site includes 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary as well as 12 topical essays. The site’s essay topics include the social causes of the French Revolution, a close look at the connection to and unfolding of the Haitian Revolution, and the global legacies of the revolution.<\/p>\n

Smart Histories<\/h4>\n

Tanil Vasilahu, Madis Maasing, Kerry Kubilius with Sammi Bold, Tony Burnett, Mehak Zaib Suddle\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Smart Histories: Compelling Stories of Russian History<\/a>\u00a0hosts 36 short videos on Russian history from prehistoric times to the present. Each major era of Russian history includes a transcript of the short video, as well as a Pinterest site with related images, and music from each period. These pages also incorporate additional videos that run from 4 minutes (Lenin\u2019s New Economic policy) to 95 minutes (Ivan the Terrible). Instructors should review resources prior to assignment, as some contain graphic and violent historical material.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The German Studies Collaboratory<\/strong><\/h4>\n